Yum failing a dependency, removing FC3 packages of the same name as FC4
Ted Kaczmarek
tedkaz at optonline.net
Thu Sep 15 20:52:39 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 08:59 -0700, Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> I think these two things might be related but I'm not sure.
>
> Several months ago I used yum to update from FC3 to FC4. I removed
> the FC3 "fedora-release" package and installed the FC4 "fedora-release"
> package then did yum -y update. All went smooth. I've been running
> updates every week for quite a while with no problems. Today during a
> routine yum update I got the following dependency error:
>
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Conflict: hal conflicts kernel < 2.6.11
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: hal conflicts with kernel < 2.6.11
>
> I'm running 2.6.12.
>
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4smp #1 SMP
>
> I ran a list of installed kernels and discovered:
>
> kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 installed
> kernel.i686 2.6.9-1.667 installed
> kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 installed
> kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.9-1.667 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 installed
> kernel-smp.i686 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 installed
>
>
> Is the old FC3 kernel causing my dependency problem with "hal"?
> How do you remove a FC3 package when the FC4 package is named the same?
>
> I don't think I want to "yum remove kernel-smp.i686". Which package
> would it remove???
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug P
>
rpm -q kernel
rpm -q kernel-smp
rpm -e "all the 2.6.9* and 2.6.11*" unless you have some reason to keep
these around.
Regards,
Ted
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